Who Is Mary from Terminus on The Walking Dead?

Although The Walking Dead has helped create and rediscover a lot of stars, but one that has kind of fell through the cracks is Mary at Terminus.  She is played by Denise Crosby, who is known by many science fiction fans as Tasha Yar from Star Trek: The Next Generation.  Now, she has two rabid fan bases that can recognize her wherever she goes instead of just the one.

Recently, she spoke with MoviePilot.com about her newly found resurgence in noteriety thanks to The Walking Dead.

Denise Crosby has a 16 year old son who plays baseball and she noted that many of his friends are impressed seeing her at his games:

"I have a lot of coolness now with his friends. Suddenly it’s like I’m the STAR on the baseball field “Oh my GOD Mrs Crosby, you’re on The Walking Dead!“- nobody would even talk to me before…it’s so funny."

Mary from Terminus

Mary doesn’t exist in the comic book world, so she was allowed a lot of creative leeway into figuring out who Mary is what her motivation to be in Terminus is.  Here is how she figured out who Mary is to her:

"You’re going to find that as the season begins these moral conflicts will come out, this real determined, soulful woman that she is. This is the beauty of how Scott Gimple writes, he goes for these very deep, layered, human obstacles that they’re up against, and the stories we tell ourselves to make the world seem right. It was an interesting process because so little is revealed to you as you’re coming to the show and between seasons because they’re so protective of everything- I had to really sit down with Scott and have him talk to me at length about Mary and about Terminus, and about what it all really means."

She also spoke about her creepy greeting to the folks at Terminus:

"I didn’t realize how well I was acting that, but that seems to be the general consensus, and that’s what I was going for – just a genuine welcoming, but what is she NOT saying, and that was there."

For the rest of Movie Pilot’s awesome interview with The Walking Dead’s Denise Crosby, click HERE.